Sleep is magical stuff. Missing a night of sleep means you’re missing out on your most productive time for Human Growth Hormone (HGH), which is especially handy stuff when it comes to recovering from a big physical effort. It’s so handy, in fact, that there’s a booming industry based on the results of [...]
Dear readers of the CFTO blog,
Hi. It’s me, Stress. How are you? Me, I’m not doing so good. I’m a little irritated, one might even say stressed by all the bad press I’ve been getting around here lately. Frankly, it’s unfair. Where has this anti-stress bias come from? What would you do [...]
It sounds like a Spanish lite beer, and it can give you a saggy midsection… but what is Cortisol, really? It’s commonly referred to as “the stress hormone”, but that’s only part of the picture. Cortisol is like Adrenaline’s less-popular, slower-moving sidekick. They both hang out in the adrenal glands, but for the [...]